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Has the Trump administration doomed Newsom’s water plan?
California approved Newsom’s Delta water rules, but Trump threatens to pull out and $740M with it. Water agencies that once backed the deal call it too strict; environmentalists say it’s too weak.
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Budzinski Secures $56.7 Million in Critical Rail and Port Infrastructure Investments for Decatur and Granite City
Today, U.S. Representative Nikki Budzinski (IL-13) announced that the Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) has awarded a combined $49,906,330 to two Illinois railroads in her district through its Consolidated Rail Infrastructure and Safety Improvements (CRISI) Program. The…
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How Ukraine Is Using SpaceX To Escape Elon Musk
Recent events leave Volodymyr Zelensky and his European counterparts no choice but to scramble for alternatives to Starlink.
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Nancy Pelosi Rebukes El-Sayed Over Israel: ‘It’s Wrong’
Abdul El-Sayed has previously said there is a responsibility to tackle "antisemitism in all of its forms wherever we see it."
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RNC rejects narrative of spoiler candidates 'on both sides,' calls Alaska scheme 'fraudulent'
The RNC says Democrats recruited a second Dan Sullivan onto Alaska's Senate ballot to confuse voters as the DOJ intensifies its criminal probe.
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Judge set to hear arguments over blocking Trump's proposed arch
The Justice Department and a group of veterans are set to face off in court over the fate of President Trump's proposed 250-foot arch.
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DOJ and Comey's lawyers to face off today over latest attempt to charge him
Former FBI Director James Comey will be back in a federal courtroom on Friday, as his legal team prepares to argue for dismissing the Justice Department's latest attempt to criminally charge him.
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Campaign texts, powered by AI: How new tech is shaping voter outreach
Campaigns are experimenting with AI texting to hear from more voters than before — and sometimes, to persuade them.
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Voters weigh in as early turnout builds in WA’s tight swing district
As Election Day approaches, voters in Washington's 3rd Congressional District discuss their hopes, concerns and choices in a closely watched tight race.
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I-638: What’s at stake as WA votes on trans girls’ participation in youth sports
With voters set to determine if transgender girls are allowed to compete in K-12 girls sports, here's an explainer on the state's policy, where research stands and what comes next.
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Dear Abby: Wedding invitation clashes with dream vacation
DEAR ABBY: I'm 78, and my husband is 79. This past year, he lost $500,000 through a fraudulent bitcoin site. Fortunately, we have $500,000 left, but I'm so angry about this, you can't imagine — all of my hard-earned savings, gone. I've had a lifelong dream to go to Italy to see…
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Boycott Bears, Sox if you're angry over teams' threats to move
I'm not a fan of professional sports. It's too expensive for a family. The best thing about my divorce was that I never had to endure another football game. That said, I don't understand why fans aren't revolting over the Bears’ threats to leave Illinois and the Sox toying with…
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List of Halloween Products, Candy Recalled Ahead of October 31
The recalls involve choking hazards, undeclared allergens and possible lead contamination in products sold nationwide.
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Josh Shapiro aims for a strong finish in a campaign with 2028 implications
The Pennsylvania governor has more at stake Tuesday than other 2028 contenders.
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Democrats can pass a major climate bill — without winning the midterms
A great deal is at stake in next week’s midterm elections. The partisan makeup of the new Congress will shape future spending bills, congressional investigations, and judicial nominations, among other things. And yet, the most consequential bill of the next 12 months — and the…
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Serbia’s Gen Z takes back their country from strongman Vucic, demanding top police, intelligence, judiciary officials resign immediately
The students' win on Sunday marks the first time that a grass-root youth movement toppled a well-established political leader.
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Lindsay Clancy is due in court Monday. The hearing may settle if she'll face new trial
Prosecutors for the Plymouth County district attorney's office have not yet said whether they'll seek a new trial against Clancy. If they do, it's also unclear if they'll stick with pursuing a first-degree murder conviction or opt to try her on lesser charges.
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Red Baron Floats Employee of Month for Accosted Worker, Fundraiser Grows
“He’s still here. He’s got a fan club. Including us," the pizza company wrote in a post on social media.
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The $6.3 billion Binance hack: What we know so far about the biggest crypto heist in history
There are unconfirmed reports North Korea is behind the massive hack.
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For Mass. Brazilians, the American Dream comes with familiar political divides
For a Brazilian community that gravitates toward Bolsonaro — an ally of President Trump — the White House's mass deportation campaign brings conflicted feelings about the American president.
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Shapiro takes the inside track
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Joliet Prison's Fire Alarms Still Broken Despite Deaths
After years of pleading for help, employees at an Illinois mental health prison plagued by deadly fires said that the state made important safety changes following an investigation by the Marshall Project, WBEZ and the Chicago Sun-Times that detailed 70 fires and two deaths…
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Housing mobility programs help low-income renters move on up
In 1985, Gloria Washington was living in a subsidized apartment in Chicago’s Englewood neighborhood. She says it was infested with rats and roaches, and there were always people drinking and doing drugs outside the building.“I didn’t want that life for my two little kids,”…
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This Galewood couple — and a crew of skeletons — pay homage to Johnnie’s Beef for Halloween
When Susie Jendro and Mike Colesworthy moved into their Galewood Georgian in the summer of 2017, they were given some neighborly advice: Start getting ready for Halloween now.The couple did not shrink from the challenge.“We called his bluff,” Jendro told us this week.It’s that…
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Chicago judge says she was a victim of convicted extortionist who posed as cocaine king Pablo Escobar's son
A Cook County judge who presides over domestic violence cases says she was a victim of a convicted felon who posed as the son of a Colombian drug lord.Jeanne Wrenn is among at least three influential women with whom Jawad Fakroune had relationships as he moved through Chicago…
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More raw sewage, billions of gallons of it, is pouring into the Chicago River after storms
Joe Gamble knows what to expect when he arrives at work at the Bridgeport Art Center after days of heavy rain.“There was raw sewage floating in the creek,” Gamble says after storms in early October. “The wind carried the smell for at least a block or two.”The Bridgeport Art…
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Pentagon Tells Europeans To Cool Their Rhetoric On Russia, Sources Say
The U.S. requests come as the Trump administration restarts an effort to press for a negotiated end to the full-scale war in Ukraine.
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Norway’s Tourist Board Hits Back At Donald Trump’s ‘S**thouse’ Attack In The Most Fitting Way
Norway turned the president’s crude insult into a cheeky tourism pitch.
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Five Senate Races That Are Tightening Before Midterms
As the midterms approach, prediction market odds show narrowing races in several states that could decide control of the Senate.
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'You are a product of the vote you don't cast'
"I came into adulthood college educated, but smugly refusing to believe that politics and voting mattered," writes Christina Wyman, who voted for the first time at 28. Now she wants her students to learn from that mistake.
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